Organization Name – Grass

Category – Data & Analytics

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A category note first: Grass sits under this directory’s Data & Analytics category, not general Services, and its rank reflects that 19-project peer set.

Grass, live since 2024, pays users for spare residential internet bandwidth to power AI-training data collection — a real, growing user base the project’s own achievement log puts at over 3 million by mid-2025, up from roughly 200,000 in early 2024.

No team member is named anywhere in the registry. Headquarters is listed explicitly as "Unknown" — a stated placeholder, not a missing field. RMA™ status is… Unverified across all seven pillars. VBTransparencyScore 9.09 at the 50th percentile, ranked 7th of 19 in Data & Analytics. One figure worth correcting directly: earlier project materials described a market capitalization "trending around $700 million" — the current $GRASS 24-hour market cap sits near $80.5 million, roughly 89% below that earlier figure, and readers should treat the $700 million number as outdated rather than current.

Coverage is thin relative to the user-base scale: a single Chinese-language crypto-media explainer was the only independent reference located. Worth asking directly, since residential-proxy-network business models have real legal and ethical questions attached elsewhere in the industry: what exactly happens to the bandwidth being sold, and to whom. Read More